Boris Vyacheslavovich Popov

Boris Vyacheslavovich Popov is the president of Maverick Security Consulting, Inc and Raiden's instructor. He met Raiden prior to the events of Rising, when Raiden was saving Sunny from The Patriots. He and Sergei Gurlukovich were once war buddies, and was well aware of The Patriots control over the entire world, so he helped Raiden in rescuing Sunny.

After the events of Metal Gear Solid 4, Boris took in several members of the Paradise Lost Army (a group of soldiers that worked for EVA) into Maverick.

During the year 2018 he, alongside Kevin Washington and Courtney Collins, helped Raiden via codec in his mission against Desperado Enforcement LLC.